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[jira] Commented: (HADOOP-3173) inconsistent globbing support for dfs commands

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3173?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12585616#action_12585616 ] 

Rajiv Chittajallu commented on HADOOP-3173:
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{hadoop dfs -mkdir /user/*/bar creates a directory "/user/*/bar" and you cant just deleted /user/* as -rmr expands the glob}

> inconsistent globbing support for dfs commands
> ----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-3173
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3173
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: dfs
>         Environment: Hadoop 0.16.1
>            Reporter: Rajiv Chittajallu
>
> hadoop dfs -mkdir /user/*/bar creates a directory "/user/*/bar" and you cant deleted /user/* as -rmr expands the glob
> $ hadoop dfs -mkdir /user/rajive/a/*/foo
> $ hadoop dfs -ls /user/rajive/a
> Found 4 items
> /user/rajive/a/*	<dir>		2008-04-04 16:09	rwx------	rajive	users
> /user/rajive/a/b	<dir>		2008-04-04 16:08	rwx------	rajive	users
> /user/rajive/a/c	<dir>		2008-04-04 16:08	rwx------	rajive	users
> /user/rajive/a/d	<dir>		2008-04-04 16:08	rwx------	rajive	users
> $ hadoop dfs -ls /user/rajive/a/*
> /user/rajive/a/*/foo	<dir>		2008-04-04 16:09	rwx------	rajive	users
> $ hadoop dfs -rmr /user/rajive/a/*
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/*
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/b
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/c
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/d
> I am not able to escape '*' from being expanded.
> $ hadoop dfs -rmr '/user/rajive/a/*'
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/*
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/b
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/c
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/d
> $ hadoop dfs -rmr  '/user/rajive/a/\*'
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/*
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/b
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/c
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/d
> $ hadoop dfs -rmr  /user/rajive/a/\* 
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/*
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/b
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/c
> Moved to trash: hdfs://namenode-1:8020/user/rajive/a/d

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